Dress-shield holder.



No. 737,364. PATENTED me al-903M T. 'DAVIS. v y

DRESS, SHIELD HOLDER,

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 10, 1902;

H0 IODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 25, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

THERON DAVIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CANFIELD RUBBER COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NECTICUT.

DRESS-SHIELD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,364, dated August 25, 1903.

4 Application filed October 10, 1902. Serial No. 126,677. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THERON DAVIS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Shield Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

- My invention relates to improvements in devices for holding dress-shields in condition for shipment, for safety, and for display.

The object of my invention is to produce a device which is so simple and inexpensive that it will not add materially to the cost of the dress-shields when they are sold in such a package, also to produce a device which approximates a dress-shield in appearance to the end that it can be used to advantageously display and advertise the shield which it carries, and, further, to produce a device in which the shields can be arranged in pairs and held flat and secure to the end that they may present the best possible appearance when exposed for sale and when produced for use.

To these ends my invention consists of a dress-shield holder the construction and arrangement of which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar figures of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a detail view of the open holder with a pair of dress-shields therein. Fig. 2. is a perspective view showing the holder doubled in the middle and strung over a line in position to display itself and the goods which it carries, and Fig. 3 is a broken detail View of a slightly-modified form of the holder.

I prefer to make the device in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2,which is approximately the form of a pair of dress-shields with their inner edges in juxtaposition. As here shown, the blank is of a generally elliptical shape and has its end portions formed into pockets 11, each pocket being adapted to contain an ordinary commercial dressshield. These pockets are formed by pasting a strip of paper or other material across the main blank,

and the inner edge of the pocket is preferably cut away slightly, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, to expose the dress-shield 13. It will be noticed by reference to the drawings that each half of the holder or envelop is of the general shape of a dress-shield, consequently that the pocket will hold the dress-shield in a fiat condition with its edges in such shape that they cannot well wrinkle, and, further, that when displayedas, for instance, in Fig. 2--the holder itself looks so much like a dressshield that it will at once attract the-attention of a prospective purchaser. It will also be observed that the back of the holder atfords ample opportunity-t0 print thereon the name of the shield, the maker or seller, and any desired advertising matter.

The holder naturally assumes the form of a score or crease 12 across its middle portion and between the dress-shields 13, this crease serving naturally to lie upon a line 14 or similar support.

I' much prefer to make the holder in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 because of its similarity in shape to that of a dress-shield;

but, if desired, the pocket can be formed of a single piece with the main blank-as, for instance,by having the edges 15 fold upward and having the outer edge 16 also fold inward and overlap the said edges, as in Fig. 3. Doubtless other ways of producing the pocket could be used to advantage; but I do not lay stress on the precise method of forming the pocket, but rather the style of holder, which provides for so advantageously holding and displaying the dress-shields and for holding them in pairs, as they are usually sold in pairs.

For ordinary purposes paper is the most.

suitable substance of which to make the holder; but obviously cloth or other material can be used, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a display-holder for dress-shields comprising a flexible body simulating a dress shield in shape, said body having its exterior adapted name to this specification in the presence of for displaying advertising matter, and its intwo subscribing witnesses. ner portion formed into two well-separated pockets located at the end portions of the THERON DAVIS 5 body, and each adapted to receive and hold Witnesses:

flat a complete dress-shield. WARREN B. HUTCHINSON,

In Witness whereof I have subscribed my J. G. DUNBAR. 

